#gatekeeping

[xiaq]

Your first pride story was touching and all but you still married a man.

Yeah, bisexuals do that sometimes.

[thefloralmenace]

Hey, I know it's a new year and things are pretty scary at the outset.

But I'm here to tell you, of all the things in this world that are gatekept, hope is one of them too.

Just because you're not hearing hopeful news doesn't mean it's not happening.

I have subscriptions to several specialized science magazines via institutional access, and I wake up every day to articles in my email like "We've just figured out how to catalyze the destruction of PFAS [forever chemicals] into harmless byproducts. Now we're just trying to take it to commercial scale." (Real story I read last month and sent to a friend who has deep anxiety about PFAS!!!).

For every big scary problem the mainstream news is capitalizing on through fearmongering, there are people behind the scenes, many of them scientists, working to ~~~ and succeeding at ~~~ solving them.

The news of the solutions are just often behind a paywall, whereas you're free to consume as many stories of tragedy, crisis, and impending doom as you want.

[drchucktingle]

YOU HAVE ENTERED THE TINGLEVERSE. THIS IS A NO GATEKEEPING ZONE

[madame-helen]

[classycookiexo]

[prokopetz]

Look, I'm not saying that it's our place as an organisation to dictate who does and does not get to claim monsterhood. I'm just saying that when the membership of the organisation in question includes a sphinx, a bridge troll, several mysterious hermits, and a pair of goblins where one of them always tells the truth and the other always lies, "no gatekeeping" is a policy that needs to be approached with nuance.

[academic-vampire]

Reading should not be a trend used to gatekeep or exclude others—reading is for everyone.